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Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Man Of Steel costars Kevin Costner and Diane Lane appearing together again in Let Him Go, we’re looking back at other onscreen star reunions.

Our collective anxiety over a close election and the president who’s absolutely determined to discredit it has coalesced into a tight, flaming ball in search of a target. Enter: the Gap.

It’s always neat when real-life spouses play fictional spouses for our viewing entertainment, which makes this a fun bit of news... maybe not for everyone on this particular day, but at least for people who enjoy The Walking Dead: Hilarie Burton, actress and real-life spouse of Jeffrey Dean Morgan, will play his wife…

The funny thing about apologies is, they’re exceedingly easy once you’ve seen a few decent examples. The properties of what we feel is a thoroughly satisfying “we messed up” statement include (but are certainly not limited to): a summary of the action in question, recognition and emphasis of said action’s impact…

Earnest fraternal affection is the main attraction in Jungleland, director Max Winkler’s moody road-trip movie by way of a bare-knuckle boxing drama. Though burdened by a derivative plot full of nefarious kingpins and unpaid debts, what sells this rugged story of men fighting their way out of their circumstances (and…

For the sake of argument, let’s just say you were staring at a shelf of DVDs around 8:30 last night, in search of the movie whose combined powers to amuse and comfort would serve as distraction from the internet’s bottomless pit of election speculation and anxiety. If by some cosmic coincidence, you reached out for …

Well, it’s the day after Election Day and Donald Trump is doing exactly the thing he’s been saying he would do. In the early hours of Wednesday, Trump declared that he won, actually, and that Democrats are trying to “steal” the election by, um, counting all the votes. He’s doubled down on those claims today, leading…

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For a few, all too brief days, the world was given the simple joy of seeing a line of university-affiliated shirts, hats, and face masks with the word CUM written on them in big bold letters. Allegedly designed as school spirit wear for the Lutheran Concordia University Of Michigan, items like a cap that reads “CUM…

Ernie Ray Clementine, New York biker and the protagonist of The Scumbag #1 (Image), is supposedly “the worst person in the world.” He’s got a fifth-grade education, steals from a donation cup to pay for drugs, and makes lecherous comments toward women. Desperate for a fix, he literally shits himself in the middle of…

The elections are a mess. Lots of people thought this would be the case, but Bernie Sanders, Vermont Senator and presidential hopeful from the Old Days, was able to predict the exact shape this mess would take a couple of weeks ago.

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Perhaps learning from his own 2016 hubris in filming a live Election Night Late Show special, Stephen Colbert—hosted a live Election Night special. Moving over to Showtime for the night, Colbert was the first to acknowledge how soul-crushing it was to have, back then, come into a live election broadcast pre-packed…

So, how was your election night?

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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, November 4. All times are Eastern. 

I’m a nearly-80 straight male, with undiminished libido. I have no problem with it, just a persistent curiosity. Like, why now? And why so various? And is it common among us old geezers? Male and female? I’m more sex-obsessed than ever before, including adolescence. Until my sixties, tits were my sexual focus, and…

Events of world-historical importance are happening all around us, seemingly on a weekly basis these days. Another surge of coronavirus is overwhelming health care providers. It’s all a lot to take. So let’s be grateful for music: During times when the world feels like nothing but an anxiety generator, the intimacy of…

One of the big Hollywood stories this year has been Christopher Nolan’s insistence that his latest film, Tenet, get a regular theatrical release and not get endlessly delayed or dumped onto a streaming service—despite the ongoing pandemic that shuttered all movie theaters in the country for months. Once (some)…

Sorry, Snyder Cut True Believers: You have another crisis on your hands, and the only way to solve it is to band together behind a catchy hashtag and harass people with absolutely no control over this kind of thing—err, actually don’t do that this time. It’s very much not necessary. As reported by /Film, the trailer…

Just when you thought the end of the spooky season couldn’t hurt any more than it already does, TVLine says Hulu has decided not to renew its Stephen King-inspired anthology series Castle Rock for a third season. That means last year’s take on Misery, with Lizzy Caplan as young Annie Wilkes, will be the last we see of…

About six years ago, the “playable teaser” (or P.T.) for a new game co-designed by Hideo Kojima and filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro found its way onto the PlayStation Network store as a free download. It then proceeded to scare the living bejeezus out of pretty much anyone who gave it a try.

On HBO’s Watchmen, Jeremy Irons played a guy who was so full of himself that he believed he was the only person on the planet who could avert a global catastrophe. He had done that by dropping a squid on Manhattan, which didn’t end up being a super popular move, but now he’s taking on another role that leaves him as…

Every year, Jimmy Kimmel caps off the Halloween season with footage of crying children. Parents send in videos of them lying to their kids about having gobbled up all of their Halloween candy and a nation laughs at the subsequent tears. It’s really weird! I don’t get it. It would fuck me up to know my parents made me…

Astronaut movies centered on male protagonists with heavy emotional baggage are practically a genre unto themselves (see: Ad Astra and First Man). Traumas and mental hangups unfold as these tight-lipped heroes prepare to navigate the unimaginable perils of space travel, plunging us into dark corners of the mind as…